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May 31st, 2011 Haiti Liberté to Begin Releasing This Week Secret U.S. Embassy Cables Provided by WikiLeaks<http://www.haitianalysis.com/2011/5/31/haiti-libert-to-begin-releasing-this-week-secret-u-s-embassy-cables-provided-by-wikileaks> ------------------------------ *by Haiti Liberte * The weekly Haïti Liberté begins publishing a series of articles which will draw from 1,918 secret diplomatic cables about Haiti from U.S. Embassies around the world in its June 1 edition this week. The cables were obtained by the transparency-advocacy group WikiLeaks and made available to Haïti Liberté. The cables cover an almost seven-year period from Apr. 17, 2003, ten months before the Feb. 29, 2004 coup détat which ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to Feb. 28, 2010, just after the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince, and surrounding cities. The cables range from Secret and Confidential classification to Unclassified. Cables of the latter classification are not public, and many remain marked For Official Use Only or Sensitive. The cables offer a penetrating look into official U.S. strategies and maneuvering in Haiti in the coup years (2004-2006) and the period after President René Prévals election (2006-2010). We see Washingtons obsession with keeping Aristide out of Haiti and the hemisphere, the microscope it trained on rebellious shanty towns like Cité Soleil and Bel Air, and its tight supervision of Haitis police leadership, of officer selection, and of the United Nations 9,000-man military occupation known as the UN Mission to Stabilize Haiti (MINUSTAH). Embassy officials offer candid assessments of other ambassadors and of Haitian politicians, government officials, and other public figures. Sometimes their analysis is illuminating; other times, it is arrogant, self-serving, or just plain wrong. What emerges is a portrait of how aggressively Washington seeks to manage Latin Americas first sovereign nation economically and politically, especially in the wake of the 2004 coup, but also how fiercely the Haitian people have resisted. This coming weeks article will examine how Washington and U.S. oil companies sought to sabotage the implementation of the PetroCaribe oil agreement between Venezuela and Haiti. Future articles will deal with the way Washington backed assembly industry owners in their fight against raising the minimum wage and how it militarized aid to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. In November 2010, WikiLeaks began publishing the 251,287 leaked U.S. embassy cables it obtained last year by providing them to large newspapers like the New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel. Now, WikiLeaks is selecting media in many other countries to provide them with the U.S. Embassy cables relative to their specific country. Haiti Liberté is honored that WikiLeaks has entrusted it with releasing the cables relative to Haiti. It is also pleased to partner with The Nation, the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S., in publishing and distributing the English-language articles based on those WikiLeaks cables. The cables offer many clues as to how Washington brought Haiti from the paramilitary and Special Forces coup of 2004 to the electoral coup that installed the neo-Duvalierist Michel Martelly in 2011 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
